Re: [CentOS-virt] Thoughts on storage infrastructure for small scale HA virtual machine deployments

2010-03-01 Thread Drew
> Don't waste your money on iSCSI adapters. Just get ones with TOEs. Just a point of note, if your hypervisor is derived from Linux (excluding some vendors who may have hacked in support), the TOEs (TCP Offload Engine) functions are *not* supported in Linux. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be f

Re: [CentOS-virt] Thoughts on storage infrastructure for small scale HA virtual machine deployments

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- "Dennis J." wrote: > What I'm aiming for as a starting point is a 3-4 host cluster with > about 10 VMs on each host and a 2 system DRBD based cluster as a > redundant storage backend. That's a good idea. > The question that bugs me is how I can get enough bandwidth between the > hosts an

[CentOS-virt] Thoughts on storage infrastructure for small scale HA virtual machine deployments

2010-03-01 Thread Dennis J.
Hi, up until now I've always deployed VMs with their storage located directly on the host system but as the number of VMs grows and the hardware becomes more powerful and can handle more virtual machines I'm concerned about a failure of the host taking down too many VMs in one go. As a result I'

[CentOS-virt] Introducing ConVirt 2.0

2010-03-01 Thread jd
Hi    We are very pleased to introduce ConVirt 2.0 – the next major step up in open source virtualization management. The ConVirt 2.0 generation combines a flexible, open architecture, the highest level of management capabilities, and the industry’s most flexible pricing model.  Built on a brand-n